Prayer Times in Malé — May 2026

Reading the May 2026 table

Today’s Islamic salah schedule for Malé — Monday, 31 August 2026 — is Fajr at 04:51, Dhuhr at 12:06, Asr at 15:15, Maghrib at 18:13 and Isha at 19:18. Sunrise (Shuruq) is 06:00. Times are computed from the city’s coordinates, the Indian/Maldives timezone (UTC+5), the Muslim World League convention and Standard (single-shadow) Asr.

Malé is listed under Malé in Maldives. The engine uses 4.1755 latitude and 73.5093 longitude with IANA zone Indian/Maldives. A mosque a few kilometres away will usually match these times to the minute; a different city, even in the same metro area, can drift by two to five minutes because longitude shifts solar noon. The listed population is about 130,000 people.

Malé is close enough to the tropics that twilight angles are usually reached every night of the year. High-latitude patches are rarely needed. In August 2026 the sun rises at 06:00 and Maghrib is at 18:13. Dhuhr (12:06) tracks astronomical noon plus a small equation-of-time correction, which is why a printed table copied from another country will not match Malé.

Calculation for Malé starts from Muslim World League. Changing the method moves Fajr and Isha by several minutes; changing Asr madhhab moves only Asr. Asr is shown with the Standard shadow factor of 1, used by the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali schools and by most Western mosque boards. If a local mosque publishes a different Fajr or Isha angle, pick that method in the selector or apply a minute offset.

Malé (Maldives) has both long-established and newer Muslim communities. Jumu'ah times are set by each mosque and are not computed here — only the five daily prayers and sunrise.

Qibla from Malé is 300.8° from true north (WNW), about 4,109 km from the Kaaba in Makkah. A phone compass is only as good as its calibration; once you have identified a wall that faces that bearing, you can mark it and stop re-measuring every day. Magnetic declination is not applied on this page — the figure is geographic, which is what a qibla diagram expects.

Nearby timetables: prayer times in Kochi (709 km), prayer times in Colombo (767 km), prayer times in Kozhikode (826 km), prayer times in Kandy (861 km), prayer times in Bengaluru (1076 km). Neighbouring cities share almost the same latitude, so Fajr and Isha usually differ by one to four minutes — mostly longitude and the minute the time zone snaps to.

The full August grid is on the Malé timetable for August 2026. A year view lives at prayer times in Malé for 2026. More cities in Maldives are listed on the Maldives prayer times page. Figures refresh automatically each day.

This page is an astronomical estimate, not a fatwa and not a substitute for the announcement in your local masjid. Some congregations publish a one- to three-minute precaution. If your mosque uses a different Fajr angle, switch the method above or apply a manual minute offset. For personal prayer, a coordinate-based calculation for Malé is typically accurate to one or two minutes on a clear horizon.